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  • 20ever
    20ever Posts: 125 Member
    The Hunger Games Trilogy was an excellent read. Very well written and page turners. I was skeptical at first , but once I started they were hard to put down.
  • emmie0622
    emmie0622 Posts: 167 Member
    Reading for my kindle book club - This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper - very good storyline
  • phillieschic
    phillieschic Posts: 615
    Empty Chairs by Stacey Danson

    An unbelievably heartbreaking true story about child abuse, but an unequivocally excellent read.
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    I love Biographies.. for anyone Right now I am reading scar tissue - anthony kiedis
    And I am also reading Liar by Justine Larbalestier

    I loved Scar Tissue!!
  • bluefox9er
    bluefox9er Posts: 2,917 Member
    Anything by Bill Bryson..very funny :-)
  • hellokathy
    hellokathy Posts: 540 Member
    Anything by Bill Bryson..very funny :-)

    Oooh, yes! I especially love his road trip books across the US and Europe.
  • lamilli09
    lamilli09 Posts: 354 Member
    omg, Twilight series!!

    haha. sorry, just being facetious.

    I just finished Looking for Alaska by John Green and I'm in the middle of reading Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Both are great books!
  • jonward85
    jonward85 Posts: 534 Member
    OH, i also enjoyed the Mistborn Trilogy and the Magister's Trilogy.
  • Heavyd2g
    Heavyd2g Posts: 61 Member
    Factual:
    Origins by Neil Degrasse Tyson.
    Wonders of the Universe by Brian Cox.

    Fictional:
    My own, which is unfinished at the moment, lol
    Losing you by Nicci French
  • kmburns3
    kmburns3 Posts: 46 Member
    Recently finished Cutting for Stone by Verghese, AMAZING story.
    Currently reading the Earth's Children series by Auel. Old but pretty good!
    Next on the list: Defending Jacob, Gone Girl, The Thorn Birds, and A Song of Fire & Ice Series.
  • EmmaM2211
    EmmaM2211 Posts: 536 Member
    I LOVE Janet Evantovich - I wanted to BE Stephanie Plum when I was younger (started reading those when I was about 10)

    Right now I'm loving Lee Childs Reacher series and Ian Rankin.

    Belinda Bauer - Deadlands was brilliant.
    Marshall Karp has had a few good ones too.

    I read pretty much only crime books...
  • AliceKlaar
    AliceKlaar Posts: 275 Member
    Currently reading: The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
    Some all-time favourites: The Mosquito Coast (Theroux), Catch 22 (Heller), The Bonfire of the Vanities (Wolfe), Imajica (Clive Barker), Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Just Above My Head (Baldwin)
  • PlaysLikeAGirl
    PlaysLikeAGirl Posts: 22 Member
    I'm reading Obsessive Genius: the Inner World of Marie Curie, and also The Fountainhead!

    Anyone else on Goodreads? :)

    http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5723434-sarah
  • binariiangel
    binariiangel Posts: 146 Member
    Morganville Vampire's Series by Rachelle Caine.
    Just got done reading Kelley Armstrongs Other World series
  • Titanuim
    Titanuim Posts: 331 Member
    Excellent books I have read this year
    - Wool short story series by Hugh Howey
    - Angelfall (Penryn and the end of the days) by Susan Ee
    - Raven's Shadow by Anthony Ryan
    - Oryx and Crake and the Year of the Flod by Margaret Atwood
    - I am Legend by Richard Matheson

    I have read so much but those were standouts that haven't been mentioned already.
  • PetulantOne
    PetulantOne Posts: 2,131 Member
    I'm about to start reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn rand again.
    All of her books are amazing.
  • jonward85
    jonward85 Posts: 534 Member
    any other SF fans out there? Wheel of Time, Song of Ice and Fire, Drizzt ect...?
  • joehempel
    joehempel Posts: 1,543 Member
    any other SF fans out there? Wheel of Time, Song of Ice and Fire, Drizzt ect...?

    yes....Drizzt not so much, found the first trilogy quite boring.
  • jonward85
    jonward85 Posts: 534 Member
    I enjoyed the first trilogy, but haven't read beyond that. Have you read Age of Misrule trilogy or Mistborn Trilogy (+1)?
  • AnninStPaul
    AnninStPaul Posts: 1,372 Member
    Better: A surgeons notes on performance. way better than i thought it would be

    that's a good one.
  • Caitlinhappymeal
    Caitlinhappymeal Posts: 185 Member
    reading the reader at the mo
    we need to talk about kevin is way better than the film, you just swing between blaming husband and wife
    time travellers wife
    anything by chuck palinuk
    all the adrian mole books
    ed king has a superb ending
    anything by ben elton
    a couple of classic zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance and 1984
    the boy in th striped pyjamas, again way better than the film
    and finally my most favourite book a thousand splendid suns, such human selfless sacrifice and a reminder of just how privileged us western totty are!
  • Nerdybreisawesome
    Nerdybreisawesome Posts: 359 Member
    Favorite book ever is Tipping the Velvet by Sarah waters. Right now I am listening to Saints Astray.
    I <3 Tipping the Velvet.

    It is an awesome book!!!

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